Robert Desmond Meikle

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Robert Desmond Meikle (born 1923) is a British botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He became most notable for his two-volume work Flora of Cyprus (1977 and 1985), the first comprehensive contribution about the almost 1750 plant taxa from Cyprus. Other works including Willows and Poplars of Great Britain and Ireland from 1984 and Garden Plants from 1963. He is also writing articles for the Irish Naturalists' Journal since the 1940s.

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